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From: Baiss E. Magnusson <BMagnusson@PrecisionImages.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: BETA questions
Date: 20 Apr 1995 16:10:09 GMT
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>
>I am one of those students who was forced to learn BETA and 
>had to cope with severe flaws of BETA resp. the Mjoelnir BETA Compiler :
>
>- BETA-programs are very large (> 250k even for a simple "Hello World" program)
>  and REALLY slow (see below)
>
I must admit that your experience with Beta is not encouraging to one who
has followed its progress for fifteen years and been entranced by its
syntax. As a software developer who has authored several large commercial
programs used throughout the world the compiler efficiency certainly
becomes an important factor . Anything more than 50% worse than current
C++ implementations would be unacceptable for a commercial developer.

The size is not so important, for I am ready to accept the hypothesis
that the frameworks and object re-usability may make an initial 250K
program, but for a 1MB program you can accomplish as much in Beta as with
C++. Any new commercial program of any significance is now developed with
a frameworks, the two most popular being  MicroSoft Visual C++ and
Metrowerks PowerPlant. And the program size of a 'Hello World"
application is quite large.
-- 
Baiss E. Magnusson                       bmagnusson@precisionimages.com
Macintosh Project Lead                URL:http://www.PrecisionImages.com
Precision Digital Images              206-882-0218
IMAXX line of video capture boards     Redmond, WA. 98052,  USA